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“I have never watched ‘Star Trek’,” he said. “There are many episodes I don’t know, there are some movies I don’t know.” Shatner did say, however, that he watched the 1989 movie “Star Trek V: The Final Frontier,” but that’s mostly because he directed the film. “I directed one of the movies — No. 5 — I had to watch that one,” he said. Still, he said the experience of looking back on his performance in the long-running series is not an enjoyable one....

Sondheim’s many works also included “Follies” (1971), “A Little Night Music” (1973), “Pacific Overtures” (1976), “Sweeney Todd” (1979), “Merrily We Roll Along” (1981), and “Sunday in the Park With George” (1984). Sondheim won Tony Awards for Best Original Score for “Company,” “Follies,” “A Little Night Music,” “Sweeney Todd,” “Into the Woods,” and “Passion,” as well as Best Lyrics for “Company.” He also won eight Grammys throughout his life, as well as the Best Original Song Oscar for “Sooner or Later (I Always Gets My Man)” from Warren Beatty’s film “Dick Tracy....

The theatrical landscape is harsh and barren. Sundance is virtual for the second year in a row. Arthouse releases flatline around the country; so do awards-season titles. “Spider-Man: No Way Home” dominates the multiplexes, Netflix’s “Don’t Look Up” dominates the discourse, and everything else looks like an asterisk. Let’s not kid ourselves. These are bleak times for almost any movie without an eight-figure marketing budget and/or the algorithmic power of a major streamer....

ABC’s beloved first-year public school sitcom “Abbott Elementary,” from creator and star Quinta Brunson, made the grade as the night’s top winner with four prizes. The series took home honors including Individual Achievement in Comedy for series creator, producer, writer, and star Brunson; as well as Outstanding Achievement in Comedy, Outstanding New Program, and the prestigious Program of the Year Award. Other winners include “This Is Us” star Mandy Moore, who earned the award for Individual Achievement in Drama for the show’s final season; acclaimed Disney+ rock doc from Peter Jackson, “The Beatles: Get Back,” which won the Outstanding Achievement in News and Information Award; reality series “The Amazing Race” and “Legendary,” sharing an Outstanding Achievement honor for CBS and HBO Max, respectively; Netflix’s surreal sketch comedy “I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson”; plus “Dopesick,” “Succession,” “The Baby-Sitter’s Club,” and more....

Summer is in full swing, and with the nicer weather comes the opportunity for more outdoor film shoots. Excited? You’re not alone. In addition to the benefits of natural light and getting to breathe fresh air while you work, it’s nice not to be constrained by ceilings. Sometimes a breathtaking aerial shot is all it takes to turn a good film, into a great one. With that in mind, filmmakers looking to maximize the potential of their outdoor shoots should pick up a camera drone....

The original “The Ren & Stimpy Show” premiered on Nickelodeon in 1991, the same year the network debuted classic kids shows such as “Rugrats” and “Doug.” Though “The Ren & Stimpy Show” was not explicitly aimed at adults, the show was full of dark humor, raunchy sex jokes, and other mature content, which generated some controversy. The series nonetheless was widely praised during its five-season run and remembered as one of Nickelodeon’s standout ’90s shows....

Much like “Precious” and the Daniels-produced “Monster’s Ball” before it, “The United States vs. Billie Holiday” is somehow overbaked and raw as a bone at the same time, at all times. And much like those previous films, this one swirls around an astonishingly real performance that centers everything around it like the eye of a storm — one that can see naked truths about the continued subjugation of Black people in America through a flop sweat haze of hoary tropes and handsome window dressing....